gyrocab
nounEtymology From gyro- + cab under the influence of autogyro etc.
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Literature, Media, Publishing, Science fiction Synonym of aircab, a flying taxi, particularly a helicab or autogyro taxi.
- They were not there waiting for her, after all. She came upon them getting out of a gyrocab just as she emerged from the tubes a on to street level. The gyrocabbie, wide-eyed, gazed after his fares for a moment, then hovered upward and away.1951, Isaac Asimov, “Hostess”, in Nightfall and Other Stories, Green City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Company, Inc., published 1969, page 76:
- Derived terms
- gyrocabbie